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What Coach Rick Pitino and the Louisville players had to say about Kentucky [Sports]
After falling from the ranks of the unbeaten in Wednesday’s 71-68 loss to Georgetown, Rick Pitino said his team would not hold a press conference prior to Saturday’s matchup against Kentucky. From a coaching standpoint, it’s probably a wise move to not put your players through another round of questioning and instead have get it over with while still steaming about their first loss of the season.
Memphis v. No. 4 Louisville men's basketball preview [Sports]
Scouting Memphis
Memphis, No. 11 in the AP’s preseason poll, dropped out of the top 25 this week with its 76-72 home loss to unbeaten Murray State. The Tigers (5-3) return all five starters from last year’s 25-10 team and was the preseason pick to win Conference USA
Sophomore guard Will Barton leads Memphis with 20.4 points and 7.6 rebounds a game. The fast-paced Memphis attack is 16th in the nation at 81.1 points a contest.
Testy rivalry
Cards Roll on to 8-0, Despite 1st half play [Sports]
It wasn't pretty. It may have not been what Head Coach Rick Pitino hoped for. But, it was simply good enough.
The Louisville Cardinals improved to 8-0 after defeating IUPUI Wednesday night, in front of 20,604 in the KFC YUM! Center. Senior Guard, Chris Smith, scored his 1000th point of this career, and also led the team in scoring with 19 points. However, it didn't come easy for the Cardinals, who led by just 5 at the halftime break.
Basketball not in the Cards for Sallie, or Coleman this season [Sports]
By Josh Cook
The University of Louisville men's basketball team has taken a double hit.
Friday UofL announced that neither former Memphis guard Roburt Sallie nor 2010 signee Justin Coleman will be eligible to play for the Cardinals in the 2010-11 season.
According to the announcement Sallie, who had signed a financial aid agreement with UofL in June, won't play "due to the timing requirements of meeting the matriculation deadline for graduate school."
Pitino looks to "rebrand" not rebuild next season [Sports]
By Josh Cook
Even though he's losing his top three scorers from this past season's team University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino isn't looking to the 2010-11 campaign as a rebuilding one.
But he's not looking at it as one in which the Cardinals will reload either.
Instead, he's looking at next season as a "rebranding." That despite the fact that UofL unexpectedly lost last season's leading scorer and rebounder (Samardo Samuels) to early entry in the NBA Draft.
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